Writing of the body. Corrosive humor. New narration. Memory anchored in the Creole imagination. Gerda Cadostin brilliantly portrays a gallery of colorful characters: old Sang Cochon, the Estimé clan, the Spirits of voodoo, the invisible fathers, and the twin sisters, Joséphine and Aline, who take the same man as their husband. Laisse folie courir makes you hear the crackles and smells of the country of childhood. These singular faces and universes are served by a beautiful and audacious language.

I was born of women and women. My life has been spent with women. It is women who speak to me. My mother Virgo, my aunts Viergira, Da, Odamise, Elizena, Mézine, Alice, Rosita, Rose… It is they who have loved me, strengthened me, helped me, given me a certain spirit of greatness of soul and boldness .

Born in Haiti in 1958, Gerda Cadostin lives in France. Let Madness Run is her first novel.